Phillip Tobias

Phillip Tobias
FRS
Born
Phillip Vallentine Tobias

(1925-10-14)14 October 1925
Durban, Natal, South Africa
Died7 June 2012(2012-06-07) (aged 86)
Johannesburg, South Africa
Alma materUniversity of Witwatersrand
Known forPaleoanthropological and evolutionary work
Scientific career
FieldsAnthropology
Thesis Chromosomes, Sex Cells, and Evolution in the Gerbil  (1953)

Phillip Vallentine Tobias FRS (14 October 1925 – 7 June 2012) was a South African palaeoanthropologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. He was best known for his work at South Africa's hominid fossil sites. He was also an activist for the eradication of apartheid and gave numerous anti-apartheid speeches at protest rallies and also to academic audiences.

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.